Controversial Books for Diverse-City

This page shows the most "controversial" books in this library, as measured by the highest standard deviation of members' star ratings.

Standard Deviation Avaliação Média Your Rating Título
1.424 2.93 Fifty Shades of Grey por E L James
1.398 3.23 God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships por Matthew Vines
1.173 3.55 The Sins of Scripture: Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love por John Shelby Spong
1.169 3.4 The Education of Harriet Hatfield por May Sarton
1.165 3.52 Something Shady por Sarah Dreher
1.155 3.71 A Guide for the Advanced Soul: A Book of Insight por Susan Hayward
1.14 3.26 The Abomination por Paul Golding
1.119 3.61 A Small Sacrifice por Ellen Hart
1.104 3.09 The Man of the House por Stephen McCauley
1.102 3.94 Brokeback Mountain [2005 film] por Ang Lee
1.101 3.22 The Wanderground: Stories of the Hill Women por Sally Miller Gearhart
1.09 3.63 Curious Wine por Katherine V. Forrest
1.078 3.25 The Slap por Christos Tsiolkas
1.077 3.83 Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality por John Shelby Spong
1.076 3.47 Other Women por Lisa Alther
1.076 3.48 An Emergence of Green por Katherine V. Forrest
1.072 3.49 Mean Little deaf Queer: A Memoir por Terry Lynn Galloway
1.065 4.04 Blue Heaven por Joe Keenan
1.063 3.54 Honor Guards por Radclyffe
1.059 3.84 A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith is Dying & How a New Faith is Being Born por John Shelby Spong
1.052 3.65 A Place I've Never Been por David Leavitt
1.051 3.6 A Boy's Own Story por Edmund White
1.051 3.67 Hood por Emma Donoghue
1.05 3.63 Queer Theory: An Introduction por Annamarie Jagose
1.041 3.14 Small g: A Summer Idyll por Patricia Highsmith
1.037 3.3 The Bride Stripped Bare por Nikki Gemmell
1.037 3.82 Unforgettable por Karin Kallmaker
1.035 3.46 Skinned Alive por Edmund White
1.031 3.36 The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power por Helen Garner
1.031 3.59 Daddy's Roommate por Michael Willhoite
1.029 3.9 A Simple Suburban Murder por Mark Richard Zubro
1.027 3.07 Daughters of an Amber Noon por Katherine V. Forrest
1.02 3.45 The Well of Loneliness por Radclyffe Hall
1.017 3.78 The Beauty of Men por Andrew Holleran
1.016 3.72 Evolution's Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People por Joan Roughgarden
1.011 3.69 The Beautiful Boy por Germaine Greer
1.011 3.83 Honor Reclaimed por Radclyffe
1.01 3.76 My Name Is Red por Orhan Pamuk
1.01 3.79 Boy Meets Boy por David Levithan
1.008 3.36 The Temple por Stephen Spender
1.006 3.9 Hocus Pocus [1993 film] por Kenny Ortega
1.006 3.44 My Mother, My Self : The Daughter's Search for Identity por Nancy Friday
1.005 3.5 The Living and the Dead por Patrick White
1.004 3.89 Orlando: A Biography por Virginia Woolf
1.003 3.67 Less por Andrew Sean Greer
1.002 3.63 For a Lost Soldier por Rudi van Dantzig
1.001 3.76 Juno [2007 film] por Jason Reitman
1.001 3.64 Sierra City por Gerri Hill
1 4.12 The Waves por Virginia Woolf
0.998 3.68 Desert of the Heart por Jane Rule
0.993 3.9 American Studies por Mark Merlis
0.992 3.99 Call Me by Your Name por André Aciman
0.986 3.76 Kissing the Witch: Old Tales in New Skins por Emma Donoghue
0.985 4.02 The Perks of Being a Wallflower por Stephen Chbosky
0.984 4.09 Holding the Man por Timothy Conigrave
0.983 3.56 The Folding Star por Alan Hollinghurst
0.98 3.45 Dead Europe por Christos Tsiolkas
0.979 3.72 Remembering Babylon por David Malouf
0.979 3.8 Above All, Honor por Radclyffe
0.978 3.88 Alex As Well por Alyssa Brugman
0.977 3.9 The World Unseen por Shamim Sarif
0.975 4.02 Dawn Of Change por Gerri Hill
0.973 3.51 Wish You Were Here por Rita Mae Brown
0.97 3.51 Pages for You: A Novel por Sylvia Brownrigg
0.969 3.67 Temples of Delight por Barbara Trapido
0.965 3.76 In Every Port por Karin Kallmaker
0.964 3.58 Ash por Malinda Lo
0.961 3.86 Tales of the City por Armistead Maupin
0.959 3.65 While England Sleeps por David Leavitt
0.958 3.97 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter por Carson McCullers
0.956 3.37 The Sewing Circle por Axel Madsen
0.956 4.11 I Wish You All the Best por Mason Deaver
0.955 3.87 The Broken Promise Land por Marcia Muller
0.954 3.76 The Natural Way of Things por Charlotte Wood
0.953 3.81 Luna por Julie Anne Peters
0.95 3.93 Dancer from the Dance por Andrew Holleran
0.95 3.88 Stoner McTavish por Sarah Dreher
0.947 3.69 The Holy Book of Women's Mysteries por Zsuzsanna Budapest
0.945 3.76 Michael Tolliver Lives por Armistead Maupin
0.944 3.75 The Beach por Alex Garland
0.942 4.09 Riders in the Chariot por Patrick White
0.942 3.84 Trumpet por Jackie Kay
0.941 3.78 The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women por Naomi Wolf
0.941 3.96 A Country of Old Men por Joseph Hansen
0.941 3.94 The Twyborn affair por Patrick White
0.939 3.86 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz por L. Frank Baum
0.939 3.6 In One Person por John Irving
0.939 3.42 Feminist Fairy Tales por Barbara G. Walker
0.937 3.48 One Degree of Separation por Karin Kallmaker
0.934 3.52 The Page Turner por David Leavitt
0.934 3.54 Arkansas: Three Novellas por David Leavitt
0.934 3.9 Every Day por David Levithan
0.934 3.65 Fresh Tracks por Georgia Beers
0.932 3.77 Honor Bound por Radclyffe
0.931 3.45 Maybe the Moon por Armistead Maupin
0.93 3.96 Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women por Susan Faludi
0.929 3.72 The Lost Language of Cranes: A Novel por David Leavitt
0.928 3.68 Rainbow Boys por Alex Sanchez
0.926 3.44 Original Sins por Lisa Alther
0.926 3.76 King and King por Linda de Haan
0.925 3.38 Equal Affections por David Leavitt
0.924 3.63 Blues for Mister Charlie: A Play por James Baldwin
0.924 3.44 Wicked Games por Ellen Hart
0.923 3.67 The Swimming-Pool Library por Alan Hollinghurst
0.921 3.88 The Eye of the Storm por Patrick White
0.92 4.1 Middlesex por Jeffrey Eugenides
0.915 3.98 Annie on My Mind por Nancy Garden
0.915 3.93 Brokeback Mountain por Annie Proulx
0.914 3.89 Patience and Sarah por Isabel Miller
0.914 3.32 Daughters of an Emerald Dusk por Katherine V. Forrest
0.912 3.94 Maurice: A Novel por E. M. Forster
0.911 3.54 The Night Listener por Armistead Maupin
0.91 3.97 Afterlife por Paul Monette
0.909 4.2 At Swim, Two Boys por Jamie O'Neill
0.909 3.88 As We Are Now por May Sarton
0.908 3.5 O Filho do Desconhecido por Alan Hollinghurst
0.908 3.35 Out of Time por Paula Martinac
0.906 3.55 Journey to a Woman por Ann Bannon
0.904 3.72 Afinidade por Sarah Waters
0.903 3.84 The Gods of Tango por Carolina De Robertis
0.901 3.94 Out of the Past: Gay and Lesbian History from 1869 to the Present por Neil Miller
0.9 3.66 Frankissstein por Jeanette Winterson
0.9 4.21 The Fault in Our Stars por John Green
0.899 3.64 Till the Butchers Cut Him Down por Marcia Muller
0.899 3.96 Too Much Lip por Melissa Lucashenko
0.897 3.65 Trophies and Dead Things por Marcia Muller
0.897 3.73 Rainbow High por Alex Sanchez
0.897 3.81 The Price of Salt por Patricia Highsmith
0.896 3.69 The Binding por Bridget Collins
0.895 3.73 Real Gorgeous: The Truth About Body and Beauty por Kaz Cooke
0.892 3.86 Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil por John Berendt
0.891 3.75 Artist's Dream por Gerri Hill
0.89 3.78 Babycakes por Armistead Maupin
0.89 3.95 Putting on the Ritz por Joe Keenan
0.89 3.69 I Am J por Cris Beam
0.889 4.14 The Intersection of Law and Desire por J. M. Redmann
0.887 3.55 Beebo Brinker por Ann Bannon
0.886 3.93 The Naked Civil Servant por Quentin Crisp
0.886 4.11 The Ballad of Reading Gaol por Oscar Wilde
0.885 4.03 The Solid Mandala por Patrick White
0.885 4.05 The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet por Becky Chambers
0.885 3.81 Third Man Out por Richard Stevenson
0.885 3.6 The Case of the Good-For-Nothing Girlfriend por Mabel Maney
0.885 3.96 They Both Die at the End por Adam Silvera
0.885 3.83 Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe por John Boswell
0.884 3.67 The Last Time I Wore A Dress por Dylan Scholinski
0.882 3.69 Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present por Lillian Faderman
0.881 4.11 The Tree of Man por Patrick White
0.881 3.8 The Boy in the Dress por David Walliams
0.88 3.45 Robber's Wine por Ellen Hart
0.88 3.59 Normal por Amy Bloom
0.88 3.6 The Beverly Malibu por Katherine V. Forrest
0.877 4.09 Safe Harbor por Radclyffe
0.877 3.83 Now and Then por William Corlett
0.876 3.83 Too Close to Touch por Georgia Beers
0.875 3.26 Women in the Shadows por Ann Bannon
0.873 3.45 Bitter Medicine por Sara Paretsky
0.873 4.26 The Importance of Being Earnest / Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / Salomé por Oscar Wilde
0.872 3.79 Christopher and His Kind por Christopher Isherwood
0.871 3.99 I Can't Think Straight [film] por Shamim Sarif
0.869 3.79 Tribe por R. D. Zimmerman
0.866 3.99 Fearless Girls, Wise Women & Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World por Kathleen Ragan
0.866 3.72 Troublemaker por Joseph Hansen
0.865 3.95 The Great World por David Malouf
0.865 3.85 Deaths of Jocasta por J. M. Redmann
0.862 3.85 Sugar por Karin Kallmaker
0.86 3.99 Tipping the Velvet por Sarah Waters
0.859 4.25 Stone Butch Blues por Leslie Feinberg
0.859 3.54 Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family por Garrard Conley
0.857 3.76 How Town por Michael Nava
0.857 3.74 James Miranda Barry por Patricia Duncker
0.857 3.91 Aimée & Jaguar por Erica Fischer
0.856 3.97 Moab Is My Washpot por Stephen Fry
0.856 3.87 Don't Let Me Go por J.H. Trumble
0.854 3.62 Trans-Sister Radio por Chris Bohjalian
0.853 4.01 Hunter's Way por Gerri Hill
0.852 3.71 I Am a Woman por Ann Bannon
0.85 4.05 Falsas Aparências por Sarah Waters
0.85 4.18 Giovanni's Room por James Baldwin
0.849 4.31 I'll Give You the Sun por Jandy Nelson
0.849 3.41 The Chimes por Anna Smaill
0.847 3.77 The Fry Chronicles por Stephen Fry
0.846 3.92 More Tales of the City por Armistead Maupin
0.842 4.01 Naked por David Sedaris
0.841 3.79 Sure of You por Armistead Maupin
0.837 3.8 Significant Others por Armistead Maupin
0.835 3.37 Sudden Death por Rita Mae Brown
0.835 3.49 Happy Accidents por Jane Lynch
0.834 4.07 Beyond the Pale por Elana Dykewomon
0.834 3.78 Death in Holy Orders por P. D. James
0.833 4.17 Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic por Alison Bechdel
0.831 3.76 Ice Blues por Richard Stevenson
0.829 3.98 A Fringe of Leaves por Patrick White
0.828 4.01 Mysterious Skin por Scott Heim
0.824 3.36 Final Edition por Val McDermid
0.824 3.98 Mao's Last Dancer por Cunxin Li
0.821 3.59 Jumpstart the World por Catherine Ryan Hyde
0.821 3.92 Further Tales of the City por Armistead Maupin
0.818 3.56 The High Cost of Living por Marge Piercy
0.817 3.6 Gulf Breeze por Gerri Hill
0.816 3.79 Innocent Hearts por Radclyffe
0.816 3.65 G is for Gumshoe por Sue Grafton
0.816 3.28 Union Jack por Val McDermid
0.814 4.27 Gender Queer: A Memoir por Maia Kobabe
0.813 3.76 Listen to the Silence por Marcia Muller
0.813 4.4 Leather Daddy and the Femme por Carol Queen
0.809 4.02 A Single Man por Christopher Isherwood
0.808 4.19 Tigers and Devils por Sean Kennedy
0.807 3.77 Tatterhood and Other Tales por Ethel Johnston Phelps
0.803 3.85 Sacred Country por Rose Tremain
0.802 3.58 The Shape of Dread por Marcia Muller
0.8 3.52 Just Like That por Karin Kallmaker
0.8 3.79 The Revenant por Michael Punke
0.799 3.93 Chain of Fools por Richard Stevenson
0.797 4.05 The Killing Room por Gerri Hill
0.796 3.69 Another Mother Tongue Gay Words por Judy Grahn
0.793 3.72 The Case of the Not-So-Nice Nurse por Mabel Maney
0.792 4 Australia [2008 film] por Baz Luhrmann
0.792 3.86 Funny Boy por Shyam Selvadurai
0.79 3.84 A Grave Talent por Laurie R. King
0.79 4.27 The House in the Cerulean Sea por TJ Klune
0.789 4.28 Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity por Julia Serano
0.788 4.28 The Great Believers por Rebecca Makkai
0.787 3.71 A Ghost in the Closet por Mabel Maney
0.784 3.48 Apparition Alley por Katherine V. Forrest
0.784 4.33 That's Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation por Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore
0.783 4.2 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda por Becky Albertalli
0.782 4 The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World por Ethel Johnston Phelps
0.78 4.27 Just Above My Head por James Baldwin
0.779 4 Pretty in Pink [1986 film] por Howard Deutch
0.779 3.88 Murder by Tradition por Katherine V. Forrest
0.778 3.4 Amateur City por Katherine V. Forrest
0.776 3.98 The Story of the Night por Colm Tóibín
0.776 4.09 Without Warning por KG MacGregor
0.774 3.72 Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence por Rosemary Curb
0.773 4.14 Epistemology of the Closet por Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
0.772 4.15 This Is How It Always Is por Laurie Frankel
0.77 3.02 Murder in the Collective por Barbara Wilson
0.769 3.81 Under the Udala Trees por Chinelo Okparanta
0.766 4.02 Anything Goes por John Barrowman
0.765 3.91 The Silkworm por Robert Galbraith
0.763 3.98 Lost Daughters por J. M. Redmann
0.763 3.76 When I Knew por Robert Trachtenberg
0.762 3.67 The Facts of Life por Patrick Gale
0.76 3.92 My Policeman por Bethan Roberts
0.757 3.7 How to Become a Virgin por Quentin Crisp
0.756 3.65 The Getting of Wisdom por Henry Handel Richardson
0.755 3.9 Friendly Fire por Patrick Gale
0.751 3.68 Night Letters por Robert Dessaix
0.75 4.13 Thirteen Hours por Meghan O'Brien
0.748 3.66 Starting From Scratch por Georgia Beers
0.745 4.31 Turn Back Time por Radclyffe
0.745 3.78 One Summer Night por Gerri Hill
0.745 3.68 The Lonely Hearts Club por Radclyffe
0.745 3.8 Rough Music por Patrick Gale
0.742 3.76 Painted Moon por Karin Kallmaker
0.742 4.01 Bi any other name por Loraine Hutchins
0.74 3.94 Shield of Justice por Radclyffe
0.737 3.93 Playing Beatie Bow por Ruth Park
0.736 3.77 Hen's Teeth por Manda Scott
0.733 3.95 Sphinx por Anne Garréta
0.728 4.03 Maggie & Me por Damian Barr
0.723 3.63 Pennies on a Dead Woman's Eyes por Marcia Muller
0.721 4.22 The Dark Crystal [1982 film] por Jim Henson
0.72 4.4 Heartstopper: Volume 1 por Alice Oseman
0.715 4.02 Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community por Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
0.712 4.48 Right-Wing Women: The Politics of Domesticated Females por Andrea Dworkin
0.708 3.6 Leave a Message for Willie por Marcia Muller
0.706 4.5 The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For por Alison Bechdel
0.702 3.69 Wayward Girls & Wicked Women: An Anthology of Subversive Stories por Angela Carter
0.701 4.35 Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality por John Boswell
0.697 4.26 The Shearing Gun por Renae Kaye
0.695 3.97 Behind the Pine Curtain por Gerri Hill
0.689 3.9 A Queer and Pleasant Danger: A Memoir por Kate Bornstein
0.678 4.2 Susie Bright's Sexwise: America's Favorite X-Rated Intellectual Does Dan Quayle, Catharine MacKinnon, Stephen King, Camille Paglia, Nicholson Baker, Madonna, the Black Panthers, and the GOP por Susie Bright
0.677 3.84 While Other People Sleep por Marcia Muller
0.669 4.12 Death by the Riverside por J. M. Redmann
0.661 3.94 Battle Scars por Meghan O'Brien
0.659 4 American Savage : Insights, slights, and fights on faith, sex, love, and politics por Dan Savage
0.657 4.26 The Spanish Pearl por Catherine Friend
0.635 4.25 Me: Elton John Official Autobiography por Elton John
0.629 3.75 Little Me: My life from A-Z por Matt Lucas
0.629 3.63 Living in the Maniototo por Janet Frame
0.611 4.35 Bohemian Rhapsody [2018 film] por Bryan Singer
0.61 4.05 Nick and Charlie por Alice Oseman
0.605 4.48 Heartstopper: Volume 2 por Alice Oseman
0.602 3.64 If I Should Die (Lucy Kincaid) por Allison Brennan
0.596 4.09 A Place Called Winter por Patrick Gale
0.582 4.23 Last Night at the Telegraph Club por Malinda Lo
0.58 4.22 Some Like It Hot [1959 film] por Billy Wilder
0.557 4.48 Heartstopper: Volume 3 por Alice Oseman
0.557 4.05 Super Late Bloomer: My Early Days in Transition por Julia Kaye
0.547 4.37 Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America por Mel White
0.483 4.14 The Erratics por Vicki Laveau-Harvie
0.441 4.5 Heartstopper: Volume 4 por Alice Oseman